Mapping the European Space of Circulation

Becoming a ‘Labour Migrant’: Immigration Regulations as a Frame of Reference for Migrant Employment

“…State-regulated labour migration schemes resemble the Fordist planning economy model insofar as they presuppose that migrant workers are recruited from abroad well in advance for full-time employment in sectors defined as facing labour shortages. Several scholars have suggested that irregular migration provides flexible workers for post-Fordist capitalism, highlighting the hidden productivity of immigration law in creating deportable labour (Calavita, 2005; De Genova, 2002; Karakayali and Rigo, 2010). Migrants initially admitted for humanitarian, study or family reasons constitute an additional labour supply, often disregarded in debates on labour migration, which Pastore (2014: 387) regards as ‘functional equivalents’ to labour migration.…”

Cape Verdean Kriolu as an Epistemology of Contact

“…While in the U.S. public opinion continues to reckon the "project" as a vertical slum, a negative residue of modern architecture, and an obsolete form of urbanization, in Lisbon, as is the case in many other parts of the world, the project or "social" neighborhood is a primary response to postcoloniality made manifest in migration demographics and the reorganization of labor. The case of Lisbon housing fits within the spectrum of reactions and policies based on a set of expectations by European states regarding migrants, labor and city space after the Second World War (Huttman, Saltman & Blauw, 1991;Karakayali & Rigo, 2010).…”

Review forum

“…Farage's billboard recalling not just a refugee 'invasion' that never was, but also a fictional queue of refugees at the British border, and Salvini's carefully choreographed 'migration crisis' without migrants are illustrations of what Nicholas De Genova termed the 'Border Spectacle', in which the materiality and performativity of border enforcement practices is 'persistently and repetitively' implicated 'in the symbolic and ideological production of a brightly lit scene of 'exclusion' that is always in reality inseparable from an obscene fact of subordinate inclusion that transpires in its shadows' (De Genova 2014: 24; see also Tazzioli and Walters 2016) In other words, borders operate as filtering technologies that turn people on the move into 'immigrants' and attribute (or not) them rights and entitlements as well as a position in the social hierarchy. But, as Karakayali and Rigo (2010) argue, they are in turn activated by migrant mobilities.…”